Daniel Radcliffe Wants Somalis to Star on 'The Journey Is the Destination'

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Starring on "The Journey Is the Destination", Daniel Radcliffe has asked the movie's producers to cast Somalia-born people as the actors of the biography-drama flick. The 20-year-old actor does it because he wants to "keep the project authentic".

"I don't want to do that horrible 'Black Hawk Down' thing of filming in one part of Africa and then casting actors from a completely different area and doing that awful, 'Oh, they look the same, no one will notice the difference,'" Radcliffe tells Empire magazine. "It's this form of very subtle racism that seems to happen sometimes and it's horrible. So I'd hope we can get extras who are Somalian (sic), rather than from South Africa or Zimbabwe, for example."

On "The Journey Is the Destination", Daniel Radcliffe will portray Dan Eldon, 22-year-old British photojournalist whose work brought global attention to the Somali civil war in the 1990s. He is one of the four journalists who are stoned to death by a hate mob in the country. The film, which is helmed by Bronwen Hughes, is scheduled to hit U.S. theaters in 2011.

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